PROHIBITION AND CRIME.
NEW YORK. Judges and public prosecutors throughout the United States, in reply to a questionnaire circulated by the National Public Prosecutor at Washington, declare almost unanimously that the great increase in crime here may be attributed directly to the Prohibition Law. Since jou there has been an increase of 800 per cent in crime, and the national courts are congested to such an extent that some cases lake two years ta come to trial. Since Prohibition criminal cases in the United States have increased by leaps and bounds, one-third of the 140,000 pending belonging to thai class —London "Daily Telegraph." America was told that Prohibition would empty her gaols. Instead they are crowded alter three years of it. ' Keep New Zealand Tree from this thing. Vote Continuance.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3137, 2 October 1922, Page 5
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